Thomas Massie runs off-grid home using wrecked Tesla Model S battery

https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1764449567431393722

by drak0n1c • 2 years ago

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jsjohnst• 2 years ago

There’s a lot of DIY power wall info out there if you want to replicate something like this, w/ or w/o Tesla car battery packs.

woleium• 2 years ago

If your metro area has been blighted by e-scooter rental companies littering the sidewalk with scooters, you can likely also find them super cheap on your local government/police auction site. The rental companies seldom claim them back after they get impounded. They are a great source of cheap cells for diy powerwalls

CyberDildonics3• 2 years ago

I would be more impressed if this guy wasn't a traitorous anti vaccine disaster of a person.

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie

thebrain• 2 years ago

Only that kind of person would want to live off the grid...

CyberDildonics3• 2 years ago

I don't think that is true at all.

krater23• 2 years ago

Okay, you are more impressed if a person that you like does interesting things than a person that you don't like?

Sorry, but out of a technical perspective that makes absolutely no sense.

CyberDildonics3• 2 years ago

This link it taking a cool little tech project and using it to promote an absolutely awful politician. It's cheap PR, meant to distract from the disgusting things this person does.

mysteria• 2 years ago

Would a DIY solution like this run afoul of building codes? How about insurance coverage if something happens? On one end of the spectrum you can have say a Powerwall system wired by a electrician and with all work signed off by a city inspector. On the other end you have something like this which could possibly be safe if properly deployed, but might not be considered so legally.

_hyn32• 2 years ago

I'm so glad no one said that to Nicola Tesla or Thomas Edison. I wonder if they were aware that they might have injured themselves!

jjordan• 2 years ago

Gotta love how an objectively cool project is taken down because some people here disagree with his politics.

_hyn32• 2 years ago

Anyone have more technical details, as well as what his typical load is, how long the panels will/are lasting, the price for all of this, and what he does when the sun isn't shining in Kentucky, and especially how the controller software works?

saxonww• 2 years ago

If you watch the video(s) he paid ~$15k for the battery, and had to drive ~900mi to get it from a salvage business.

Here's the first one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms

I don't know if he mentioned how much it cost to get the conversion kit stuff, but looking at the site (evtv.me) makes me think it was several thousand dollars. It looks like 'standard electrical stuff' controlled by an arduino.

He has a propane-fueled generator for when the battery system is offline. He shows it and you can hear it running when he swaps out the old lead-acid battery system.

He's hoping to get 20 years out of the batteries. At several points you see the power draw on the system. At the end of the second video he did some verbal napkin math based on the number of cycles he'd already gone through. This was happening during the winter, his assertion being that winter would be the toughest time of the year.

You should watch the video series.

Thomas Massie runs off-grid home using wrecked Tesla Model S battery

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